Gaza City: No Gas No Cars No Fuel No Electricity
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Hiyam Noir
July 5 2010 11:24 PM
PalestineFreeVoice - On Sunday, Gaza's power plant units were declared out of service, again . Due to chronic shortage of fuel needed for operating the only plant, the fuel shortage will led to the closer of the number of operating power units from 4 to 1, with is a generating capacity of 30 Megawatt.
If the international community do not stop the Zionist entities criminal attempt, Gaza will these hot summer months experience a severe power crisis. Mr. Jamal Al Dardasawi, Director of PR in the Gaza Local Electricity Company, called attention to that Gaza is now having to struggle with its worst nightmares, a growing deficit of power supply estimated at 60 percent of the total electricity needs.
Al Dardasawi added that " the power storage remaining is only sufficient to light up Gaza for 6 hours daily, while during the rest eighteen hours Gaza is forced to live in blackout of full darkness".
The United Nations Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the occupied Palestinian territory issued last May a summary of the impact that electricity cuts have on the different sectors such hospitals and medical clinics , water and sanitation etc.
The problems with the power outage this summer is nothing new, however it is widening the awful misery of 1.5 million Palestinians locked inside the worlds largest out door prison, the power outrage is a hard strike on all aspects of life.
During almost one decade now, I have tirelessly reported from both inside and outside of Gaza, I also alarmed, when ever it occurred, about the problem with the wide-reaching power shortage caused by the devilish scheme conducted by the Zionist entity, a whimsy turning of and on it's electric power lines to Gaza. (There are three sources of electricity in Gaza, the line from Zionist Israel when not shut off produce "120" megawatts, the power line from Egypt produces "16" MW, while the Gaza only power plant before the deficit, produced "60"megawatts.)
I have written several reports about the bombing of Gaza’s only power plant four years ago, and about the missiles damages to the two generators out of the three, which operates the whole power plant.Then there was the Zionist Israeli blockade of gas and much needed fuel shipment three years ago.
The only good thing in this seemingly imperishable misfortune; During the years after the Palestinian democratic election in January 2006, and the following of a the hideous pattern of injustice to the people of Gaza, the true mentality and goal of the Zionist entity has at last been discovered around the world.
It began with the "Ramallah betrayal" the Fatah compliance with the Zionist entity and USA, against it's own fellow people in Gaza, then followed by the savage blockade aimed to devastate the entire Gaza infrastructure,then came the Zionist's 22-days and nights insane chemical war-offensive labelled, " Operation Cast Lead", a murderous full-scale military assault on the small, densely populated, and defenseless Gaza Strip, killing over 1,500, and wounding more than 5,000 Palestinians.
On the 31th of May this year, came a criminal assault which also forever will be remembered, a real eye opener to all other dreadful crimes conducted by the "Gods chosen people", against the Palestinian people,and the entire world during more than six decades; The Zionist entities attack and massacre on board the Turkish ship, Mavi Marmara, one of the aid ships in the international Gaza Flotilla, Zionist terror commandos attacked the ship and wounded some dozen and killed 9 of the peace activists.
Regarding the Gaza power outage Mr. Jamal Al Dardasawi mentioned that a long-lasting blackout is going to cause a heavy damage on commercial and industrial sectors , to public facilities and services. He also said, that yesterday evening, when the halt of the generator was announced, it was not because of Israeli bombardment, but the Israeli aim to prevent needed fuel from entering in to Gaza.
Kanaan Obaidi, the chairman of the Energy and Natural Resources Authority in Gaza, said that the power plant stopped working last night, because it was not provided with the required quantities of fuel to run the power plant. According to Mr Obaidi the deficit in the electric power supplied to Gaza will reach only 60 percent, he is warning of a new major humanitarian disaster in Gaza’s hospitals.
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